I’ve decided its best I list my goals and how I plan to achieve them, so here we go:

Firstly I need to de-clutter my life. Since forever I have been terrible at hoarding things that I have no use for, and have been unable to get rid of anything, so I’m going to try to strip my life down to what I really need, and what luxuries I can really afford to live without.

Secondly I want to take better care of my health, I’m going to start running again, planning to do so every other day, with some other form of exercise on the off days. I should hopefully be getting my blender soon also, which should help boost my fruit and veg intake in the form of delicious smoothies. I want to learn to cook better and healthier foods, cutting down my intake of processed food (Not that it is very high to start with).

Altrusim.  I want to get involved in doing more to help my fellow man. Hopefully once I’m up and running again (literally), I’ll be able to do some fundraising and charity runs to help out good causes.

Life. There is going to be a number of things included in this section. Firstly its money. I need to take more responsibility over my finances, and work out what I can, and can’t afford to spend, and recognise where I am spending too much money and how I can resolve it. Alcohol comes next. I’m not a massive drinker anyway, I don’t really drink in my house, but when I go out I tend to drink far more than I should. I think I’ll try to see if I can stick within the recommended unit limit for a few weeks, as I guess that will be beneficial to my health also.

I want to read more books. I feel like I have let myself down with the amount of reading I have done over the past few years, so that is definitely something I want to catch up on (book suggestions would be great!)

Finally I need to organise my time better. I spend far too much time procrastinating instead of getting on with things, so that is something I’m going to at least try to cut out completely. I want to wake up earlier each day and get more done, especially at weekends as I regret spending a lot of time in bed in the mornings.

These are the goals that I’m going to set myself for the next 10 weeks. I will probably add more to the list if they come to me. Your suggestions and comments are always welcome. If anyone wants to join in with this whole experiment that would be even better, just drop me an email at lawnmower@gmail.com with the subject title ‘Blog’ and be sure to let me know if you want your progress to be included on the blog.

Thanks for your time

See you tomorrow

Love
Oli

This has been something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time, and after reading several articles on lifehack.org on self-improvement and watching this video over and over :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmMUuR–Qvo

I’ve decided its time for change. I am going to make a list of all the things I want to change in my life, and suggestions how I can go about it.

They say goals are easier achieved with the help of others so my plan, or rather hope, is to get as many people involved too, so hopefully people will list what they want to achieve, and keep me updated with their progress alongside mine.

Initially this is going to be a 10 week experiment but I’m planning to extend it indefinitely if its successful.

In my next blog I’ll start with the list of what I want to improve and how I plan to do it.

I hope you enjoy reading and will get involved in attempting to create a better, happier world (for at least a few of us)!

Love
Oli